Wow Lucky

Hey. That’s pretty good.

Damn.👍

Good for you, but that makes me sad, frankly. I still remember when signed firsts would bring big bucks. * sigh *

@@Serai3 I feel like they didn't know it was a signed first and just listed it as a heavily used First edition. It was a big thrift store shop.

Gabriella Drozdzowski - I tried to imagine it just now and got the bit of the chills. I don't know why considering it'd be a cartoon but that's terrifying as hell.

I know, right?

Donnie darko i see.

He was also dark brown with a white nose, his movie design was inspired by several other characters, including Mickey Mouse.

Seems to me like Roger Rabbit is very much based on Buggs Bunny, seems about the same size as his 'human' costars like Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam, and would have no problem whatsoever doing anything book!Roger does.

How would that come from a monkeys paw twist? The monkey paw is just when the paw takes it so literal you have to know what you want otherwise it'll turn on you

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 I mean, lets face it if cartoons suddenly became real in that time period it would probably end up with them being second class citizens. You would need to clarify for equality.

Glitch_FACE fair enough I suppose

That was my instant thought. The idea of a genie being real is significantly less far fetched than humans and cartoons living side by side. Since both exists I very much think it makes sense for the former caused the latter.

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 To be fair, the ol' monkey's paw concept has kind of been muddled to mean both a literal wish, and being a cautionary tale about trying to wish your problems away. So, it's understandable that it's sometimes confused which is the right definition. Also, that would actually make sense, though part of me wonders if said genie is the one Valiant killed during the climax of the book.

That's so rare.. When i finish my book i hope that happens to me. I'm a terrible author so id love my ideas to get some justice

What's your book about Thomas

I don't think he loved it better, he just thought it was adorable.

@@Visplight agreed.

Even the writer of “Fight Club” likes the David Fincher film more than his book

You mean the villans...by which i assume you mean the cartoon weasel gang....and the judge who is a toon

Other racism parallels: Paying Toons a miniscule wage because they're Toons (Dumbo is said to work for literal peanuts), Roger standing on a soap box when talking to Valiant about the struggle for Toons, and the club Jessica works at having Toon waiters and performers but exclusively human patrons.

@@Felodontis For someone who is not American, why "Roger standing on a soapbox " is considered a racist parallel?

@@HIPOCRUPTUS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapbox The soapbox is not itself racist, but it's like he's making an impassioned, impromptu "I Have a Dream" type speech. The soapbox is a metaphor. @Morbius: Couldn't the toons move to NYC and work for Famous Studios?

I thought the racism parallels were obvious as soon as I saw black tie wearing penguins serving humans in a club, with other cartoons performing silly songs. It's just like the look of black workers and serveants during slavery and also during bits of the Jim Crow era. A hyper segregated workforce performing all the minial tasks for the largely richer non-iron audience, with the stage performers the equivalent of exotic dancers or jazz musicians, and object thar both causes joy, but only in the sense that they can mock and humilated them for their 'oriental' or 'backwards' beliefs.

I got no desire to revisit this movie as an adult because of how fucked up that scene is

It was the guy being squashed by the roller and then turning out to be a toon (effectively back from the dead) that really scared and scarred me as a kid.

@@imasinnerimasaint God, same. The crazy eyes, the melting. It’s so messed up. xD

Judge Doom himself is pretty bad too. "Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked _JUST LIKE _*_THIIIIISSSSS_* !!!!!" ...You're welcome.

As a kid this really bugged me! Here was this innocent shoe being murdered in cold paint, surrounded by unsympathetic cops, Eddie and maybe one other guy seem to even care... not enough to protest, or ask why he's murdering a civilian. I know they've got to set up that this 'dip' stuff works, that's simple writing 101, and with a name like 'Judge Doom' I don't think the audience was ever *_not_* supposed to realize he was the bad guy (though that turned out to be so they could hide much more interesting spoilers, such as being a toon himself, in plain sight, and we never saw it coming). So in this otherwise perfectly written movie, there was this plot hole that nobody cared when toons died, and the literal genocide that he's planning at the end of the movie was being treated as paving over a park. Anyhow, a few years later, that whole _Rodney King_ thing happened, and TL;DR I found out that it wasn't a mistake, it was political commentary that *All Cops Are Bastards* (though not that exact slogan yet... it was basically Ferguson before Ferguson), and it was all an allegory for racism. How did I not recognize it at the Ink & Paint Club? Well, I had my suspicions, but segregation and murder are... _different._ Segregation was the kind of racism that became popular after slavery and murdering your slaves was no longer legal. I had no idea cops were doing this shit, because I was a kid, and I was white. For years, no decades, everyone who talked about it said it was his own fault for "getting back up again" ... and... the whole thing? What about the initial beating... sorry, old tangent... shoe murder=bad. I always wonder what happed to the sibling or lover (hopefully not both) who was the other shoe?

"it was all just a dream" is a copout i normally despise but, in a cartoons are real universe i can see some of them having some pretty novella like dreams. Gonna wonder what Jessica was reading the night before that inspired that one though...

@@prcervi Or watched, but could be some kind of real horror flick

@@prcervi I admit, it is really cliche, but considering how much more beloved the movie is compared to the book, I believe it's passable, since it's basically accepting a new canon.

@@JennyBlaze253 i won't call cliche an awful thing, but the effort has to go in to make it work in a "cartoons are real people" universe the "it was all a dream" copout isn't out of place feeling, i'm just left wondering what jessica read/watched/whatever that made a novella length film noir of a dream

@@prcervi Fair. I'm mainly just saying I cant think of any other time when the "it's all a dream" plot twist actually made something better.

Yeah, if Jessica had thought she'd fallen in love with Roger and then left writing it off as a one year fling it would be WAY less creepy. I don't blame Roger's character any though because he didn't actually ask the genie to make her love him and is caught off guard when he finds out she only stayed because magic.

Same.

Yeah, pretty much all his doppelganger said to Eddie before discorporating was, "Yeah, you got me." The end of that book felt like a gut punch.

Ugh, it's so twisted.

So before the end where Rodger admits to trying to frame Eddy I would have believed that if he had truly known Jessica wasn’t with him of her own free will he would have stopped, but after the ending I’m not so sure. Anyone who can frame an innocent stranger for this kind of crime would have few problems with keeping a woman who was drugged as his wife

Surprisingly Blank I thought the film was pretty dark too. But probably less mean-spirited.

Jenifer Joseph True, Four deaths (three on screen) even if you don't count the comedically toned weasel ones. Torture. Blackmail. Infidelity. Talk of a baby shaped toon not able to properly have sex. Now that I think about it, it was pretty raunchy too.

Surprisingly Blank Apparently, Baby Herman's line "The problem is I've got a fifty-year-old lust, and a three-year-old dinky," is the only line in the movie that actually was taken straight from the book.

+Jenifer Joseph Now that you mention it, you're right. I think the film was a bit dark but nowhere near as dark as the original book. Still, the dark moments in the film adds more depth to it.

+Surprisingly Blank It really was!!! I didn't notice as a child but now, I'm kind of surprised by the many sexual innuendos in the film along with the dark themes like murder, torture, blackmail, and death of loved ones.

what's it about? hope it's going to sell like hot cakes

Same.

@Aline TV i was about to ask the same thing

Oh what's it called? And where can i get a copy?

Tell us you monster

Rabid Romantic same, as if rabbits weren’t already scary enough on their own

Undoubtedly

I dig your icon! Are you a fan of Peter Kuper?

Actually, Who Censored is a parody of 40's potboilers like Mike Hammer or Sam Spade.

... me too.

Me too

We did the same thing we do every Tuesday: Try to take over the world.

BagOfMagicFood Narf!

Critic Level too low for this meme.

+BagOfMagicFood Taco Tuesday >:U

Only once a week? I know a couple of Mice who would be contemptuous of your sloth!

Me too

Me three

Not that surprising since most of Disney's movies are adaptations of books.

that is exactly why/how you make an adaptation

How was it poorly done?

I'm wondering aswel, I haven't gotten around to reading the novel. Why was it excecuted poorly?

TheHarlequinHatter I agree, the movie is great and I loved watching it when I was younger. The book plot doesn’t sound that good.

@@JD-od6jh seems more like ppl just not wanting to taint their memory of the movie version characters. Which is fine i guess, but that's no reason to claim the book was bad. Granted i never read it, just found out it existed today through this video

I assume that's from the book.

it was ...over-hyped

The character designs looked really bad from when they were first announced. Lots of people realized it wasn't going to be good.

Great soundtrack tho lol

@@Talisguy Sounds like that one Spongebob creepypasta

They "crossed the line", which is why Little Rock is human.

thatsameoldsong Sweet. First recorded case of word of mouth happening ^_^

The Dom I found you yesterday. KZfaq is actually giving good suggestions again.

The Dom I got my husband watching you. started him with your 50 Shades rant

Devon Cook About how long was the book?

Surprisingly Blank According to Wikipedia, it's about 214 pages.

Surprisingly Blank yea i think it was around 215 pages or something like that

Devon Cook the plot twist wirh judge doom was forshadowed by his cape always blowing with no wind.

Lenore T Took the words right out of my mouth.

+Gola245 With Coraline, there really wasn't a good reason to set the story in England as the movie was being made for American audiences. Obviously they could have to make it closer to the book, but then they would also have to change it to an all-English cast to get the accents right and that could be a turn off for American viewers (maybe). Plus it was the studio's first major film so they may have been playing it safe by playing up to the viewers. It also could be that they didn't care, as the setting is almost nonexistent outside of the mention of them moving. Boxtrolls is a little different however. Generally when people think of the Victorian era they think of England, so obviously a film set during that time period would feel more natural in an English setting. They didn't change it because I felt more natural that way. Of course I could be wrong, but this is just how I see it. I would also like The Dom to do a review of Coraline or Boxtrolls.

+Lenore T Yep! He just did!

+Gola245 Because if there's one thing more difficult than finding a voice actress to play a child that fits both the emotional and physical descriptions of the book and cartoon respectively who is currently available and not too expensive, its finding a voice actress to play a child that fits both the emotional and physical descriptions of the book and cartoon respectively who is currently available and not too expensive...and has a British accent. :P

He did, but it's gone!

and the film had some noir and creep to it as well. It didn't stray too far to one side or the other.

Maybe one day I’ll give the book a shot as it sounds pretty interesting, but the movie is such a classic. It shows that a retooled story can prove even better than the source material; and when the author even likes it better, that’s quite the seal of approval

well I love dark stories and so I favor the book more than the film

Same.

I read it and I hated it, and I'm somebody who likes dark stories. It had a good idea but it was done so poorly compared to the movie. Even the author liked the movie better than his own original story.

Read the book. It isn't that dark. Dom apparently can't recognize a potboiler homage/parody.

@@keyofallworlds7549 Actually, no. Gary Wolf loved the book. But he loves money more and wrote two sequels based on the film to get $$$.

Oh wow, Thanks Dom!

Ross Pit: Shark Hunter Me too

Ethan Winstead then why don’t you?

What do you expect? It's a great noire detective story.

yeah, except for the genie story. that's way too much of a bunny (heh) out of a hat for my taste. seems really forced for some reason, the guy could have come up with a million other ways of resolving this

yarpen26 in the book itself, the twist isn't so out of nowhere. the kettle was seriously hunted down by myth enthusiastic producer and Jessica. the buildup works great

Al Hoyt He has it on the list

Jenifer Joseph Where do I see this list?

Jenifer Joseph Theres a link on the future of The Dom reviews/LIA never list video. The to do list is in desperate need of updating tbh....

Okay, that works for me.

The Dom Could you please add The Black Cauldron and/or The Golden Compass to your to do list? I didn't see them on there. Btw love your work.

I rather he didn't. I guess I wouldn't be against it actually, but I wouldn't watch it .

Joe Lin - I'd watch it! :D

Can we stop letting Tim Burton ruin things? And I say this as someone who has Ed Wood and Big Fish on her favorite movies list. His work for more than a decade has been a glut of terrible adaptations (I'm still mad about Sweeney Todd)

Burton doesn't really make many R rated films though. Tim Miller would be a good fit or David Fincher.

chanel henderson I had to look up the name cause it sounded very familiar! Then I found out she was on Friends, and I now have her voice stuck in my head

Jenifer Joseph Yeah my fans are pretty awesome ^_^

The Dom :D

ThePreciseClimber I sure hope so! I like niceness! :)

+Jami JoAnne Russell Jaws is a clear winner. The book is unendurably bad. On a lesser scale, I'd say "The Silence of The Lambs" - the two are VERY similar but the film trims a bit of unnecessary plot fat.

+wratched Oh man, but the Silence of the Lambs book was _nothing_ compared to the random side plots of "Hannibal". I didn't think the movie adaptation of it was very good (though I thought the parts in Florence weren't bad) but at least it didn't have the sub plot of Barney (the orderly) falling in love / lust with Mason Verger's _extremely_ butch lesbian sister. That was such a bizarre addition to an already unexpectedly off-the-wall story.

To me one of the most insulting things about Hannibal is the unspoken suggestion that Mason molested his sister and "made" her a lesbian. You're either born gay or not, you can't be made to be gay. Why do writers always go to the "Well, this character is gay cause someone raped them" crap?

***** I'd forgotten about that - it's been a few years, though I wouldn't doubt it. SO MUCH about that character made me uncomfortable. If I remember correctly, didn't she take Mason's semen after he was dead or while he was dying? That book was the _worst_ Hannibal Lecter book in my opinion. I don't know what Thomas Harris was thinking. Most writers nowadays don't go with the "person is gay because they were raped" thing, but I've seen it more with older stories by straight people who I'm guessing _really_ didn't understand homosexuality.

Yes. There's something in their parents' will that said only those who were blood related to inherent their money, so Mason kept her on a leash by always promising his sperm so her girlfriend could get pregnant, but never gives it. Hannibal informs her that if she uses an electric cattle prod on his prostate she could get his semen without his cooperation. I guess in some cases I read too many old books. Cause I see that a lot. Oh, there was that Stephen King novel, Insomnia, in which one of the side characters, a woman with an abusive husband, starts wearing a pink triangle pin not long after her abusive husband's death....